BS = We all know what that is.
MS = More of the same.
PHD = Piled Higher and Deeper.
LOL, that's pretty funny. I'll have to use that some time. Thanks.
BTW, here's one for you:
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
BS = We all know what that is.
MS = More of the same.
PHD = Piled Higher and Deeper.
To dispel the "mystery" surrounding Hammond Ham...
FYI, I am NOT a college graduate, I am not a high school graduate and I doubt that most college "grad-u-ates" do not have any higher IQ than do I.
I have over 40 years in working with and raising deaf and HoH children. My success rate is not 100%, but neither is yours.
My children have outpaced most of those exiting most deaf ed programs.
My hands on experience, IMNSHO, is equal to, maybe more, than most BS, MS and DR sheep skins.
BS = We all know what that is.
MS = More of the same.
PHD = Piled Higher and Deeper.
It is sad that those with high academic titles have, for the most part, never raised a deaf child and only regurgitate the academic tripe with which they have been fed.
I subscribe to "NO GUTS, NO GLORY" and my children attest to my GUTS and GLORY.
The encyclopedia notes that l'Eppe "developed his Old French Sign Lsnguage as a means to educate and to "save the deaf" (from themselves, I presume).
That same spirit permeates deaf academia to this very day. It is a manifestation of the selfish pride, the "feel-good" of controlling others and, along the way, of demeaning everything or anyone that disagrees or postulates anything new or inventive.
Most are too timid to examine or try anything new, besides, they are content with the status quo no matter who suffers, just as long as they are not challenged in their thinking.
As for me, I'll try most anything (at least until disproved) to teach (not my profession).
All in all, I have been successful, especially in helping to educate my children (with no thanks to the "professionals, so called).
Here is a think-it-over......lead, follow or get out of the way! I am a pioneer, a thinker, a mover and shaker of ideas and policies.
How about you? Have you ever taken the chance to experiment, to test, challenge or promote something new or inventive?
No, you have not the guts to move outside a proscribed comfort zone and, there, you shall live and die, never having experienced the "agony of defeat" or of real success.
Your tombstone should read, "I never tried anything new, once"?
Maybe you need a change in career and a redirection.
Now, be genteel in your response. You are a lady, aren't you?
Hammond Ham -aka- Nemisis
Henceforth, I shall post but I will ignore your corrupted mindset. It deserve only silence and I bet that really disturbs your lapses in your synapses. HH
Those links didn't work so I tried this one:OK, here is some information to assist you with SEE1 signs. Just keep in mind that there are 2, competing(?) SEE sign systems. SEE1 (Seeing Essential English/Morpheme Sign System) als David Anthony and SEE2, Signing Exact English, ala Guftason(?). SEE1 has a lot of information available at: www.amaisd.org/mss and at: Welcome to NDCLB.
Do you support this system? If you do, wouldn't it be easier for you to provide the link and/or explain the code to us?...On line you should find the "code-breaker" and the latest information on SEE1/MSS signs,
but you need to get familiar with the code-breaker to fully understand and implement the rather extensive dictionary.
No kidding. That would wear me out.You've got to be kidding me! 3 and 4 individual signs to create one noun? That would drive me crazy.
Madam,
I was taught to not argue with a foolish person.
You seem to qualify as being a product of a long failed, educationally incestuous, self serving, head-in-the-sand, academic (so called) philosophy that has bought into the same old barf, regurgitated for over 100 years, concerning all aspects of deaf education and society.
There are none so blind that they choose not to see, for if you had, you would be able to understand that the falsehoods and assumptions, fostered in over the years and accepted by the academically impaired as truths, are a castle built on sand.
Your only rebuttal is limited to asking multiple, inane, questions, mainly concerning my credentials. Well, if 40+ years of hands-on, raising two deaf, adopted children to adulthood is not good enough, then there is no way to get you to consider my blog or to reconsider your own failed philosophy and methodology.
Until you have done English transliteration, at a graduate school, in mathematics, psychology and astrophysics, I think you are ill prepared for an intellectual challenge.
I am appalled that, in the 21st century, the deaf education system (for the most part) remains mired in 19th century thinking and you have so ably demonstrated that you remain as a part of that failure.
There is little honesty in deaf education and ignorance begets more ignorance, the results are, by and large, the unfortunate deaf are pawns for their service providers self gratification and benefit, while much of the deaf remain under educated, unemployable, all the while being manipulated by their "benefactors".
With many deaf reading with a 2nd to 4th grade English proficiency, they are ill prepared to flourish in a modern technological, predominately hearing, society.
Intellectual dishonesty and haughty claims for the "good" (deaf service providers) they have done and are doing, in retrospect, and upon minute examination clearly have not
brought the deaf into the 21st century.
They do not comprehend written or spoken English (a prerequisite), they remain at odds with the rest of society, all the while you foster and support the systems and 19th century thought that enslave them.
Personally, madam, I would not wish to arrive at the Great White Throne, on Judgment Day, where all, great and small, will have to answer for our thoughts and actions, only to hear of the punishment that is sure to come.
"That which you have done to the least of them, you have done unto Me" and deaf ed has a lot of explaining to do.
Have you truly educated the deaf? NO!
Have you lessened their need for your services? NO!
Can they read and comprehend English or have you enslaved them to having to have an interpreter? YES!
Have you made them independent (NO!) or dependent (YES!).
Can they read the Closed Captions with understanding. NO! The (6th grade) words "too hard" and "go too fast"?
Until we, all together, bring the deaf up to a minimal par of their hearing peers, using modern manual English communications, digital hearing aids and cochlear implants, to name a few, deaf education stands condemned.
By the way, our school systems are not doing a commendable job of educating the hearing, either.
I pray that you will not long remain as a "stumble in the march of time".
I have thrown down the gauntlet!
I have made a mark in the sand.
Are you ready for the challenge?
Then, bring it on or cease and desist your disinformation.
To: The Write Alex...
Deaf Education is not unlike a Longhorned male bovine.
Two, widely separated points, with a lot of bull in between , followed by lots of YKW.
Hammond Ham
You've got to be kidding me! 3 and 4 individual signs to create one English noun? That would drive me crazy.